" PRO BONO PUBLICO."

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 295, 16 May 1879, Page 3

" PRO BONO PUBLICO."

I really do not "Wish to blow, but " Eco-f nomy House is all the go;- * What's the reason 1 • I don't know, unless' because my goods are low. ~ Some will say " 'tis all,my eye VI But if those who don't believe will try, And just a line ,or two will buy, they'll ne'er again be heard to cry, "Pray, can you tell tho reason, why Akaroa prices are so high ?" So a few new lines just in I'll quote— Twelvh,goJbd;[clothes pegs for half a groat. Three, and a half for .nails mixed ; • Strong, kitchen chairs for six and six. I've cross-cut saws with lightning teeth, Through" wood they'll go as if 'twas AShWil ?'".-< ■'■ --Ar, • : " ' )V ' ] So fast they, cut;,,when <> nee they're r .started-,. ~,..,; .-.-• u-y : : .'■'". : That, ere you can sfcop them the tree is parted. They are -as cheap-as cheese, and ready v for use, , r,.,::. n - :■ .: r v",-; ' : "Ajia.wiU last, for, an age if you dont abuse., r -/', ,:■ . ■:-..,;■ '../., ! Tnis I'm aliye J , /• ■ Or "at any jaaMac the scribe., r (The ll Bopny .Scot,*',.who but last week,! Three' of ,puV Council tried to unseat, Old Shakespeare's words are true I weeny " tho' keen the teeth of winter's wind, ■ Yet not so sharp, because unseen, as man's ingratitude unkind.") .New .clothes /lutes made of galvanised wire, ~ rr , • Defyittg both water and fire. For years they will last, and never rust; Two and nine I them sell, so buy them you must. ' '' New breach-loadmg'guns, Just now out 'from home, '■'■'. With newest improvements, and a nice little box, ,Nine pounds is the price, and small, is the sum ~ ... , For a B. L:, with top action and rebounding locks. Then I have powder, shot, and caps, for shooting wild cats And cock pigeons with long tails, that run about the grass ; But ; ho£'the little Quails you may see among the' vales-, Only'whisper "" by and bye';" then let them by ybupassj ; ; For it really is a shame to. destroy those birds, so-jgame .... ••■.-- That have cost .such time and trouble for our country to import. Then let us do our best to protect and leave at rest What in future years may give us bo much sport. I am wandering again into another strain, So back again I'll come to where I off did break, And now again begin -with candlesticks of tiny- - ..,- .And one shilling is the price for each I've teapots on the shelf, some people < call them delf, "V '-/) {;,'"';' Btrtiwtikt they are of ' course "It matters little; .'.;.. ;.■ Of color they are brown, and the price is half a crown, - -' -> And tihey naake^a|So- gopdrbyE! IU say .agaift, ast it's very, ...very.^aiu. /.■:;, v ..-i;'•.;.-•.-';, ;-• .." j. That; 4here/s. someone .trying to break . down shop dper};;.-,- • n'<. ■' • ..';; ,*"..' ;AndJ'm,gla#,toiJsee cptoe back 1.. Our friend," Sundowner Jftck.;" May ho ne'er have cause to leave us any more. , . .., : • - --